Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I opened the case I heard a groaning , splintering noise , which caused me to experience extreme pain as the bridge flew off and whacked me on the side of the head ! |
| 2 | In this case I chose a mount measuring approximately 17. 5cm ( 7in ) square , with a 7. 5-cm ( 3-in ) diameter aperture . |
| 3 | So much so that she decided to call the police and give them my registration number , just in case I made a habit of kerb-crawling . |
| 4 | I walked this afternoon from my room to the School and in the lane I met a cat carrying a hedge sparrow . |
| 5 | At that instant I learnt a lesson I have never forgotten : never , ever use a camera that you have not tested , ’ |
| 6 | At that instant I felt a pang in my heart ! |
| 7 | This continuity has practical as well as expressive value , because it facilitates the organic style of change I mentioned a moment ago as a practical advantage . |
| 8 | In supplies , for example you often have to undertake almost military type operations I witnessed a group of 150 women who planned and carried out an ambush of the enemy to requisition bread and flour and the only arms they were carrying consisted of sticks and cords , To be a nurse also requires a lot of mental equanimity and physical strength . |
| 9 | In addition I organized a body of prominent citizens into what we called ‘ China-Canada Incorporated ’ , and I was able to get my friend Dr Norman ‘ Larry ’ MacKenzie , President of the University of British Columbia , to serve as its Chairman . |
| 10 | With great difficulty I obtained a copy of this document and while it stated that ‘ public servants should not reveal the opinions and attitudes of colleagues as to the government business with which they have been concerned ’ , another section said quite clearly that a reasonable timescale for a public servant 's silence would be ‘ fifteen years or for the service life of the adviser , whichever is the longer ’ . |
| 11 | Without difficulty I found a Bed and Breakfast house , equally smart and highly polished , and settled down for a pre-exploratory nap . |
| 12 | At club level I did a lot of long and triple jumping , making 14.25 metres at the latter . |
| 13 | In March I joined a CPRW delegation which met the senior Welsh Office planners and statisticians to find out more about the basis of the population and future housing projections given to the eight Welsh counties by the Secretary of State for inclusion in their Structure Plans . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's about your Mum I wanted a word with you . |
| 15 | Over and over I told my mum I wanted a bike . |
| 16 | At Lincoln I built a structure of thought . ’ |
| 17 | After skulking around for half an hour I spotted a kestrel in a tree nearby . |
| 18 | From the ramparts I had a view across the bay to green marshes and , far above them , rising above a swathe of cloud , the snow-covered summit of Olympus , infinitely remote . |
| 19 | When I went into Panama I needed a visa , I went in without a visa . |
| 20 | ‘ Of course I had a mother . |
| 21 | And the thing that was said a lot was a Slippery Elm stick , well I still do n't really know what it was but er it was a kind of a s , bark of the Slippery Elms , a Slippery Elm bark or something and they sharpened it to a point and inserted that into the womb you see and it was done , and then of course I heard a lot about gin , sitting in a hot bath with gin . |
| 22 | Of course I heard a car . |
| 23 | Of course I fired a couple of the likely suspects immediately , but I 'm still not certain that we nailed the villain . ’ |
| 24 | Our duels were not on the scale of the later Clarke versus Prescott battles , where in the 1987 general election I saw a television chairman leave his chair several times to restore order . |
| 25 | done a financial and er my er , this afternoon I had a guy come in with a Capri , bloody welding that thing needs doing , I do n't think he 'll get it done , so I was , I was |
| 26 | THE other afternoon I received a telephone call from one of your representatives enquiring whether I read the Echo regularly . |
| 27 | I discovered Negley Farson 's Going Fishing , and one magic afternoon I unearthed a copy of Izaak Walton 's Compleat Angler , which he wrote in 1676 . |
| 28 | Later in the afternoon I saw a meal for all 600 prisoners being cooked in one gigantic iron pot over a blazing fire . |
| 29 | When I carried out a survey of undergraduates and their use of books at Sheffield University I needed a sample of all undergraduates in the university during the academic year of the study.8 It was quite a revelation , talking to the Assistant Registrar in charge of records , to discover how difficult it was to define a ‘ student ’ for my purposes . |
| 30 | A lot of these were books written by moralistic females ; books which erm reflected various kinds of Victorian ideas , and much later on when I did some research in Oxford on Victorian literature I found a way of putting these two sorts of things together . |